Thread: 1583 after 3 weeks
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Re: 1583 after 3 weeks
Hi Alex......We are only kicking from one side of the octagon. Our process for kicking in autonomous is to (1) drive to the ball (2) capture it with the dribbler (3) Acquire the vision target with the camera (4) rotate the robot to aim at the target while possesing the ball (4) kick when pointed at target. During teleoperated we also hope to have the camera and Crio aim the robot to kick the ball as well. As it stands now we have four CIMs driving the chassis, two FP spinning the dribbler and one CIM powering the kicker. That ends up being seven jaguars stashed in that octagon. There's not much wasted space to say the least

Paul.....We always drive our prototype chassis with Vex. Can't beat it for getting things up and running fast. It also gives the programers something to work with without waiting for the CRio